From: Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@ioremap.net>
To: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: kapil dakhane <kdakhane@gmail.com>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, netfilter@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] tcp: Fix a connect() race with timewait sockets
Date: Sun, 6 Dec 2009 00:21:48 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091205212148.GA26270@ioremap.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B1912CE.5040304@gmail.com>
Hi Eric.
On Fri, Dec 04, 2009 at 02:46:54PM +0100, Eric Dumazet (eric.dumazet@gmail.com) wrote:
> First patch changes __inet_hash_nolisten() and __inet6_hash()
> to get a timewait parameter to be able to unhash it from ehash
> at same time the new socket is inserted in hash.
>
> This makes sure timewait socket wont be found by a concurrent
> writer in __inet_check_established()
Both patches look good, although trick with returning reference counter
may look like a hack especially when only viewing into ip code and not
hashtable itself. Can you please cook up a documentation update for hash
function that it is supposed to return refcnt when socket was in hash
table.
--
Evgeniy Polyakov
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-12-05 21:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-12-01 2:02 soft lockup in inet_csk_get_port kapil dakhane
2009-12-01 6:10 ` Eric Dumazet
2009-12-03 4:13 ` kapil dakhane
2009-12-01 15:00 ` [PATCH] tcp: Fix a connect() race with timewait sockets Eric Dumazet
2009-12-02 8:59 ` David Miller
2009-12-02 9:23 ` Eric Dumazet
2009-12-02 10:33 ` Eric Dumazet
2009-12-02 11:32 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2009-12-02 19:18 ` kapil dakhane
2009-12-03 2:43 ` kapil dakhane
2009-12-03 10:49 ` [PATCH] tcp: fix a timewait refcnt race Eric Dumazet
2009-12-04 0:19 ` David Miller
2009-12-04 3:20 ` kapil dakhane
2009-12-04 6:29 ` Eric Dumazet
2009-12-04 6:39 ` David Miller
2009-12-04 6:39 ` David Miller
2009-12-02 15:08 ` [PATCH net-next-2.6] tcp: connect() race with timewait reuse Eric Dumazet
2009-12-02 22:15 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2009-12-03 6:44 ` Eric Dumazet
2009-12-03 8:31 ` Eric Dumazet
2009-12-03 23:22 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2009-12-04 0:18 ` David Miller
2009-12-02 16:05 ` [PATCH] tcp: Fix a connect() race with timewait sockets Ashwani Wason
2009-12-03 6:38 ` David Miller
2009-12-04 13:45 ` [PATCH 0/2] tcp: Fix connect() races " Eric Dumazet
2009-12-04 13:46 ` [PATCH 1/2] tcp: Fix a connect() race " Eric Dumazet
2009-12-05 21:21 ` Evgeniy Polyakov [this message]
2009-12-07 9:59 ` [PATCH] tcp: documents timewait refcnt tricks Eric Dumazet
2009-12-07 16:06 ` Randy Dunlap
2009-12-09 4:20 ` David Miller
2009-12-09 4:20 ` David Miller
2009-12-09 4:18 ` [PATCH 1/2] tcp: Fix a connect() race with timewait sockets David Miller
2009-12-04 13:47 ` [PATCH 2/2] " Eric Dumazet
2009-12-09 4:19 ` David Miller
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